professional service

International Committees and Boards

05/2013 – present
Associate Editorial Board of Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics

08/2013 – present
Editorial Board of AIMS Materials Science

11/2013- present
Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports – a Nature Publishing Group

01/2024 - 12/2026
Member of the AdComm of the IEEE Magnetics Society

02/2015-01/2018
Member/Chair of the Diamond Light Source Peer Review panel 3

06/2015-present
Foreign reviewer of SPring-8 research proposals

01/2015-present
Member of the Pharos Technical Review Panel of Science and Engineering Reseach Council (SERC) Singapore

02/2016-01/2019
Member of the AdComm of the MMM conferences

04/2016-03/2019
Member-at-Large in the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) within the APS

01/2014-12/2016
Member of the AdComm of the IEEE Magnetics Society

01/2010-present
Member of Technical Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society

01/2013-12/2015
Advisory Editorial Board member for the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

01/2002-10/2015
Member of the Proposal Review Committee at the Swiss Light Source

12/2005-04/2015
Member of the Proposal Study Panel at the Advanced Light Source

01/2007- 12/2009
Member of the User Executive Committee at the Advanced Light Source

09/2002-01/2005
Member of the IEEE Technical Committee

01/2009-12/2010
Member of the AdComm of the IEEE Magnetics Society

01/2010-12-2012
Membership committee chair of the IEEE Magnetics Society

04/2009-03/2012
Member-at-Large in the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) within the APS

11/2011-10/2015
Member of the ExComm of the MIND within the AVS

11/2013-10/2014
Chair of the MIND within the AVS

International Conferences

• member of the international program committee of the 7th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy, 29.7.-2.8.2002, Grenoble, France

• member of the referee network ICM 2003 conference, 27.7.-1.8.2003 Rome/Italy

• member of the international program committee of the 8th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy, 26.7.-30.7.2005 Himeji City, Japan

• member of the international program committee of the 9th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy, 21.7.-25.7.2008 Zurich, Switzerland

• member of the international program committee for the IEEE International Magnetics Conference, Sacramento CA, 4.-8.5.2009

• conference chair of the 7th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML2010), Berkeley CA 19.-24.9.2010

• member of the program committee for the 55th MMM conference Atlanta GA, 14-18.11.2010

• member of the international program committee for the IEEE International Magnetics Conference, Taipei Taiwan, 25-29.4.2011

• member of the APS program sorting committee for the APS March meeting 2011

• member of the International Program Committee for the Intermag 2012 in Vancouver BC, 7.-11.5.2012

• member of the International Advisory Committee for the 19th International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) Bexco, Busan/Korea 8.-13.7.2012

• member of the program committee for the 12th Joint MMM/INTERMAG conference Chicago IL, 14-18.1.2013

• member of the International Advisory Committee for the 8th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML2013), Kyoto Japan 19.-24.3.2013

• member of the International program committee for the 58th MMM conference Denver, CO, 4.-8.11.2013

• member of the International Program Committee for the Intermag 2014 in Dresden/Germany 4.-8.5.2014

• member of the international program committee for the 59th MMM conference Honolulu, HI, 3.-7.11.2014

• member of the International Program Committee for the Intermag 2015 in Beijing/China 11.-16.5.2015

• member of the International Advisory Committee for the 20th International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) Barcelona/Spain 5.-10.7.2015

• Editor for the 2016 Joint MMM Intermag conference, San Diego, CA 11.-15.1.2016

• Program Co-Chair of the 61th MMM conference, New Orleans, LA, 30.10.-4.11.2016

• Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 21st International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) San Francisco CA 15.-20.7.2018

• Chair of the Topic Area “Nanomagnetism” for the 21st International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) San Francisco CA 15.-20.7.2018

• Chair of the 23rd International Colloquium on Magnetic Thin Films and Surfaces (ICMFS-2018), Santa Cruz, CA, 22.-27.7.2018

• Chair of the International Advisory Committee for the 10th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML2019), Madrid Spain 17.-21.6.2019

• Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 24th International Colloquium on Magnetic Thin Films and Surfaces (ICMFS-2022), Okinawa Japan 10.-15.7.2022

• Chair of the International Advisory Committee for the 11th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML2023), Seoul, Korea 24.-28.7.2023

• Member of the International Program Committee for the IEEE International Magnetics Conference, INTERMAG 2024, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5.-10.5.2024

• Member of the International Program Committee for the 22th International Conference on Magnetism (ICM), Bologna, Italy 30.6.-5.7.2024

• Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 25th International Colloquium on Magnetic Thin Films and Surfaces (ICMFS-2024), Perugia Italy 7.-12.7.2024

• Chair of the International Advisory Committee for the 12th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML2025), Leeds UK 14.-18.7.2025

Peer-Reviewing service

Applied Physics A, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, J Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Journal de Physique, Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, IOP J Optics, J.Phys D: Appl Phys, J. Phys D: Cond Matter, J Synch Rad, Materials Today, Measurement Science and Technology, Nano Letters, Nature, Nature Comm., Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Materials, Nature Review Materials, New Journal of Physics, Optics Communications, Optics Express, Phys Rev B, Physical Review Letters, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Physica Scripta, Rev Sci Instr., Scientific Reports, Ultramicroscopy

Refereeing service

US Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF), German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Swiss National Foundation (Schweizer Nationalfond), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Icelandic Research Fund, National Science Center Poland, Canadian Light Source, Australian Light Source, Stanford Linear Accelerator